La piscine / la Société nouvelle de cinématographie presents ; a Jacques Deray film ; original scenario by J.E. Conil ; adaptation and dialogue by Jacques Deray and Jean-Claude Carrière ; produced by Gérard Beytout
Edition:
Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1969. Wide screen (1.66:1). Special features: The swimming pool: "First love never dies", the English-language version of the film; Fifty years later, a 2019 documentary by Agnès Vincent-Deray, featuring actors Alain Delon and Jane Birkin, screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrère and novelist Jean-Emmanuel Conil; new interview with scholar Nick Rees-Roberts on the film's cinematic and aesthetic legacy; archival footage featuring Delon, Birkin, actors, Romy Schneider and Maurice Ronet, and director Jacques Deray; alternate ending; trailers. Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin.
Summary:
Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope.
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